The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Rome.
The New York strike Is over now and
everything is working as usual.
The New York Senate has passed the bill
allowing women to vote in municipal cleo
tions.
The news Of Prince Bismarcll's success
is causing unwonted firmneSs on the Berlin
bOurse.
The Governor of Kansas has approved
inc bll comforting municipal suffrage upon
women.
The two houses of the New Jersey Lcgis-
!4Curc met in joint session and balloted for
United States Senator, but without success
The President says the new Railroad
commissioners must be men Of activity,
WHO Will work hard for their salary.
The steamship Great Eastern was sold ut
auction at Liverpool yesterday for $13O,-
000 F'
The disabled steamship Wisconsin. of
the Guion Line, arrived at New York at
1.2O Z. M. yesterday.
The Lynchburg Wrginian, one of the
Oldest papers in the State, established i'm
1898, has suspended.
The President has vetoed the bill appro,
priatlng $4,000 for distribution of seeds
Lulu Hearst, the "magnctic." has mar
RCD Paul Atkinson, the man who travelled
round with her and introduced hcr to the
audience.
Secretary Manning yesterday called at
resignation and that evening left Washing
ton for Albany.
The President has nominated CaDtain
Adolphus w. Grcely, of Arctic fame. to he
Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of Brig
adler General.
All is quiet among the Boston strikers.
n good many cars are running. The pro
pflct0rS say they will resort to ANYTHING
before taking the strikers back.
Miss Edith Elwerth Talmagc daughter
or the Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage, was we'd
ucd In the Brooklyn Tabernacle last night
TO Allen Edloe Donnan, of Richmond, Va.
EX-Alderran Dnfry, who turned in
lorincr on his colleagues in the combine"
OF the boodlc Board of Aldermen, has been
SURRENDERED by one of his bondsmen.
four persons confined for theft escaped
from the Jail in Harrisburg last night. They
fired the bed in their cell before leaving but
1t was discovered before much damage was
done.
a deaf mute, answering the description
OF Walter Bingham tie sweetheart mur-
dercr, has within the last few days been
seen in the vicinity of Leicester, Buncombc
county, N. G..
The wife Of County Treasurer Bell, of
Colleton, was accidentally burned to death
on Monday: Her clothing took fire while
she was sitting before the fireplace
l.: Russcl, on trial in the Criminal Court
MS ,T Memphis Tenn.,, for the murder of j.
rom Dutton, committed in the rotunda of
the Peabody Hotel ON December 6, has
been acquitted.
a telegram from SGwancc, Tenn, on
Saturday, announces the death there Of the
IT. Rev. William Mercer Green, for the
past 40 years Bishop Of the Episcopal Do
cesc Of Mississippi.
The vote in full for Inc Mayor Of Phila
Hciphla, Pa, is as follows: Filter, Rcpub.
lican, 90,497; Kcim, Democrat, G2 2O4 ;
Phillips, Labor, 1,GG4.
Senator Cukc introduced an amendment
10 the River and Harb0r bill, making an
appropriation of $500, 600 for dredging the
channel across Galveston bar.
The United States mint at Philadclphia
has secured Il counterfeit two dollar and n
hell gold piece of 1852, for which it has
been III quest for years for the purpose of
completing its cabinet
The insurance men complain that the
heavy loss by the recent fire in Augusta
WAS due to the inctlicicncy of the fire de-
pMtmcht. Ihc chief says the department
!, too small.
he witnesses in the United States Court
NOW III session at Grccnvilc, have npti
liHHcd Judge SlmOntOn to sec them paid or
lG' them go home. The appropriation is
| exhausted.
y large tobacco factory at Petersburg
Va, owned by Davis Dunlap, was dc
| st:oycd by fire, together with stock, fix
tnrcS. machinery, &c. Loss $3.50 900, coy
| cred by insurance.
j. {. Brcscr, who was fined $50 in the
Atlanta Police Court for violating the pro
mbltlon laws several weeks ago, appcalcd
10 the City Court, and, heinz convicted
was fined 81 900.
Sixty British members Of the House of
Commons, mt conference, aCoptcd q rcso-
| luton to call the attention of Parliament
next week to the alleged pac king of iurics
i'll cases against Nationalist in Ireland.
The Arkansas river at Little Rock and
above, and its tributaries, are all at flood
| tide and out of their banks iI MANY places
lcars are entertained of another heavy
food
at Sncarr's station, Ga, Toncy Williams
shot and killed his stcpson. Williams and
his wife were quarrclng, and her son in,
tericrcd, when Williams seized a SHOTGUN
ana blew Off the top of his slcpson's head.
Ihc'snow storms in Spain during the
past few days have been of unprecedented
severity. Railway lines in Catalonia have
been blocked with snow for three days,
lhc cold is intense and causes the greatest
Inconvenience throughout toe country.
y serious snow blockade in the Sierra
| Nevada Mountains has totally Interrupted
| travel on the Central Pacific road for two
! days, and heavy rains in Southern Califor-
MA have caused considerable delay on the
Southern Pacific by washouts.
The whole country from Lyons, Mich.
| TO Muir presents a panorama of dcsOlatiOn.
Many merchants have been unable to visit
their stores since Thursday morning, and
| several who attempted it were swept down
| by the current and narrowly escaped death.
Benjamin Collcndcr & Co., wholesale
hardware dealers Of Boston, Mass, have
failed and gone into insolvency. They
| were one of the oldest hardware houses in